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Updated: September 21, 2018
Today, we are releasing the September 2018 Security and Quality Rollup.
Security
CVE-2018-8421 – Windows Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework that could allow remote code execution when .NET Framework processes untrusted input. An ...
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core September 2018 Update. This update includes .NET Core 2.1.4 and .NET Core SDK 2.1.402 and contains important reliability fixes.
Security
CVE-2018-8409: .NET Core Denial Of Service Vulnerability
A denial of service vulnerability exists in .NET Core 2.1 when System.IO.Pipelines improperly handles requests...
2 years ago I had a blog entry to introduce the GLAD (GC Latency Analysis and Diagnostics) library which provides much more insight into the GC heap performance than perf counters and takes care of interpreting raw GC ETW events so our users don't have to do that work themselves. Since then I have not heard too much usage from our customers :P...
Azure Durable Functions is a new programming model based on Microsoft serverless' platform Azure Functions. It allows you to write a workflow as code and have the execution run with the scalability and the reliability of serverless with high throughput.
Scenario
Initially, I wanted to index data from GitHub repositories. I explained it all...
Note: This content is now available as an official document
Azure is a big cloud with lots of services, and for even the most experienced user it can be intimidating to know which service will best meet your needs. This blog post is intended to provide a short overview of the most common concepts and services .NET developers need get started ...
Microsoft Library Manager (LibMan) is now available in the general release of Visual Studio 2017 as of v15.8. LibMan first previewed earlier this year, and now, after a much-anticipated wait, LibMan is available in the stable release of Visual Studio 2017 bundled as a default component in the ASP.NET and web development workload.
In the ...
Last Updated 9/7/2018: Documented missing WPF updates
Today, we are releasing the August 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup.
Quality and Reliability
This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements.
ASP.NET
CLR
SQL
WCF
WPF
Note: Additional information on these improvements is not ...
Endpoint Routing in 2.2
What is it?
We're making a big investment in routing starting in 2.2 to make it interoperate more seamlessly with middleware. For 2.2 this will start with us making a few changes to the routing model, and adding some minor features. In 3.0 the plan is to introduce a model where routing and middleware operate together ...
This post was authored by Mikael Mengistu.
In ASP.NET Core 2.2 we are introducing a Java Client for SignalR. The first preview of this new client is available now. This client supports connecting to an ASP.NET Core SignalR Server from Java code, including Android apps.
The API for the Java client is very similar to that of the already ...
What is it?
Open API (alternatively known as Swagger) is a language-agnostic specification for describing REST APIs. The Open API ecosystem has tools that allows for discovering, testing and producing client code using the specification. Support for generating and visualizing Open API documents in ASP.NET Core MVC is provided via community ...